Dungen announce new album, En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog  out October 7th - Lead single 'Nattens Sista Strimma Ljus' is available to listen to now - Today, Dungen announced their new album En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog to be released October 7th. Translated to One is Too Much and a Thousand is Never Enough, Dungen’s first proper studio album since 2015’s Allas Sak finds the core band of Gustav Ejstes, Reine Fiske, Mattias Gustavsson, and Johan Holmegaard now decades-deep in collaborative focus and elevating their trailblazing psychedelia to new heights. On the album’s hypnotic lead single “Nattens Sista Strimma Ljus” (“The Night's Last Shimmer of Light”), guitars skip like a synth pattern over a shaggy drum beat that sounds both like a late ’60s blowout and late ’80s acid house freakout. Ejstes explains the song is about “when the fun has come to an end and you want to start over.” Listen to "Nattens Sista Strimma Ljus" Dungen - Nattens Sista Strimma Ljus (Official Video) Photo by Tomi Palsa The nine-track album was recorded in pieces beginning in 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with producer Mattias Glavå, who last worked with Ejstes on Allas Sak. Glavå’s creative input was crucial to the record, and helped Ejstes to challenge his preconceptions of how his own music might sound. “We’d be in his studio, where he has all this amazing gear, and he’d be encouraging me to go with every weird idea and not to feel any pressure,” Ejstes says. “He would say, ‘Let’s use this rhythm box or this sample or this loop,’ and I’d be like, ‘can we do that on a Dungen record?’” Likewise, Ejstes’ bandmates guitarist Fiske and bassist Gustavsson, in addition to drummer Holmegaard encouraged him to push his ideas further. “It really took a lot of courage to go to the guys and play this stuff for them,” he says. While the textures might seem unusual for a Dungen record, Ejstes insists these sounds have inspired him throughout his career—even when they haven’t seemed to. “If you take Mitch Mitchell, Public Enemy, and Swedish psych-organ player Bo Hansson, and you put that in a pot, that’s jungle for me. It’s all about the breaks,” he says. “And these layers of noise. With fuzz guitar, it’s noise under control. It’s the same with turntable scratching for me—feedback, it’s all the same.” Pre-order En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog